Name: Nikola Milutinov: 'This is why the EuroLeague is so strong'
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Olympiacos BC center Nikola Milutinovic spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat LDLC ASVEL in Round 9 of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season.

Nikola Milutinov: 'This is why the EuroLeague is so strong'

Olympiacos Piraeus center Nikola Milutinov spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne in Round 9 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

Olympiacos Piraeus v LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne (2024-11-12T19:00:00.000Z)

Panathinaikos BC head coach Ergin Ataman spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat Olimpia Milano in Round 9 of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season.

Ergin Ataman: 'We improved 200%'

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens head coach Ergin Ataman spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in Round 9 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens v Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv (2024-11-12T19:15:00.000Z)

ALBA Berlin-EA7 Emporio Armani Milan | RS Round 9 Highlights | 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague

ALBA Berlin v EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (2024-11-12T19:00:00.000Z)

Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz-Anadolu Efes Istanbul | RS Round 9 Highlights | 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague

Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz v Anadolu Efes Istanbul (2024-11-12T19:30:00.000Z)

ALBA Berlin center Trevion Williams spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat Olimpia Milano in Round 9 of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season.

Trevion Williams: 'We showed who we are as a team'

ALBA Berlin center Trevion Williams spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in Round 9 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

Ivey throws it up in traffic and Kuath smashes it home through bunch of hands. WOW! 

Hamburg monster alley-oop! | Magic Moment of the Night 

 Ivey throws it up in traffic and Kuath smashes it home through bunch of hands. WOW! 

Veolia Towers Hamburg v Aris Midea Thessaloniki (2024-11-12T18:30:00.000Z)

Valencia Basket-Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana | Round 8 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

Valencia Basket v Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (2024-11-12T19:30:00.000Z)

Real Madrid remained undefeated at WiZink Center by downing Virtus Segafredo Bologna 98-86 in the Spanish capital in Round 9 on Tuesday. 


Real bounces back against Virtus, 98-86! 

Real Madrid remained undefeated at WiZink Center by downing Virtus Segafredo Bologna 98-86 in the Spanish capital in Round 9 on Tuesday. 

Real improved to 4-5 in the standings, snapping a three-game losing streak, while Virtus dropped to 2-7. Mario Hezonja led the winners with 20 points. Xavier Rathan-Mayes added 17, Facu Campazzo and Walter Tavares each had 14 while Serge Ibaka had 11 for Real. Toko Shengelia led Virtus with 20 points. Isaia Cordinier added 18, Will Clyburn had 15 while Momo Diouf and Marco Belinelli each got 10 for the visitors.

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Tavares got Real going with a layup and soon added an alley-oop dunk for a 5-0 lead. Cordinier banked in a three-pointer and soon added a reverse layup in a 0-6 run that gave Virtus its first lead, 5-6. Hezonja scored in the low post and erased Shengelia's layup with a dunk. Ante Zizic hit a jump hook, which Clyburn followed with a corner triple for a 9-13 score. Hezonja answered from downtown. After Clyburn hit a jumper, Campazzo's layup drew Real within 14-15. Shengelia improved on Eli Ndiaye's tip-in with a three-point play. Clyburn and Hezonja traded triples and Tavares gave Real a 23-21 lead. Rathan-Mayes buried a fadeaway jumper, then Shengelia and Hezonja each struck from beyond the arc for a 28-24 score. Diouf got Virtus closer, 28-25, after 10 minutes.

Matt Morgan followed Diouf's put-back layup with a three-pointer for a 28-30 Virtus lead early in the second quarter. Shengelia shocked the crowd with a high-flying tip-in and Clyburn added a fastbreak layup, prompting Real to call a timeout at 28-34 after a 0-10 run. Rathan-Mayes rescued the hosts with a triple and Ibaka added a jump hook for a 33-34 Real deficit. Diouf dunked and Shengelia banked in a jump hook, but Ibaka followed a two-handed slam with a triple that tied it at 38-38. Rathan-Mayes insisted from downtown, but Zizic buried a jump hook and Marco Belinelli's three-pointer gave Virtus a 41-44 edge. Sergio Llull joined the three-point shootout, Gabriel Deck added a three-point play and Tavares's dunk gave Real fresh air at 50-44. Llull sank another triple, but Cordinier gor the visitors within 53-49 at halftime.

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Shengelia followed a triple with a step-back fadeaway jumper soon after the break. Alberto Abalde answered from downtown and Campazzo added a floater for a 58-54 score. Shengelia insisted from beyond the arc. Tavares scored down low and Abalde's second triple boosted his team's lead to 63-57. Campazzo found Hezonja for a layup that caused Virtus to call timeout at 65-57. Cordinier sank a three-pointer, Abalde answered with a layup and Campazzo's triple made it a double-digit game, 72-60. Clyburn hit a three-pointer over Tavares and added a jump hook. Campazzo found Hezonja for a triple and hit a circus shot. Rayjon Tucker banked in a running floater that Campazzo somehow matched at the other end for an 80-67 Real lead after 30 minutes.

Rathan-Mayes buried a three-pointer early in the fourth quarter. Belinelli hit a leaning shot that a red-hot Rathan-Hayes bettered with another triple. Belinelli kept pacing Virtus with an unbelievable three-pointer. Ibaka scored around the basket and Hezonja soon made it 90-74, with les than 6 minutes left. Zizic scored off a high-post pick-and-roll play, Deck bettered that with a layup-plus-foul and by the time Rathan-Mayes downed his fifth three-pointer everything was said and done, as Real had cruised to yet another convincing home victory.

'Los Blancos' ended their three-game losing streak in style

Real bounces back against Virtus, 98-86

Real Madrid v Virtus Segafredo Bologna (2024-11-12T19:45:00.000Z)

Despite missing eight first-team players due to injury, ALBA Berlin managed to beat Olimpia Milano 105-101 in overtime in Round 9 of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season.

Undermanned ALBA showed incredible fight to beat Milan in OT, 105-101

The odds were truly stacked against ALBA Berlin heading into its Round 9 clash against EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, with the German side missing eight first-team regulars due to injury. Yet, Israel Gonzalez’s side pulled off the unthinkable by going on to beat the Italian opponent 105-101 in overtime at Mercedes-Benz Arena on Tuesday night. As a result of this scoreline, ALBA improved to 2-7 and Milan dropped to 3-6.

Most of ALBA’s scoring came courtesy of four men, with Gabriele Procida (29 points), Trevion Williams (23), Jonas Mattisseck (21) and Matteo Spagnolo (20) all netting 20 points or more. All four players recorded career highs in scoring. Williams also grabbed 11 rebounds to give him a double-double, with this being the third game this season that he has pulled down a double-digit number of boards. 

Two 18-year-olds, Dorian Grosber and Amon Doerries, made their EuroLeague debuts in this game, while another 18-year-old, Anton Nufer, had played just 2:48 minutes in the competition and more than doubled that total in Round 9.

For Milan, Nikola Mirotic had a 28-point, 10-rebound double-double, Zach LeDay netted 23 points, Neno Dimitrijevic added 14, and Stefano Tonut finished with 10.

There was plenty of scoring in the early going as Milan went 3 for 3 on triples to take an early 2-9 lead, but ALBA started to find its feet and managed to go 13-11 ahead after back-to-back triples by Procida and Mattisseck. However, that would prove to be the last time ALBA was ahead for quite some time. LeDay was causing all sorts of problems for the ALBA defense and helped spur an 11-0 run that put Milan in the driving seat, 13-22. Spagnolo came to the fore late in the first quarter by scoring 6 points to cut the deficit to four points, 19-23, at the end of the period.

Procida’s layup to start the second quarter made it a one-possession ballgame, 21-23, but Milan continued to find ways to keep ALBA at arm’s length, first through Mirotic and then via Armoni Brooks and Tonut. Still, the visitors were unable to pull away, and Procida leveled the score at 31-31 after capitalizing on a Fabien Causeur to score a fast-break layup. That only seemed to rile up Milan, which reeled off 10 straight points to make it 31-41. That distance more or less remained in check the rest of the way before halftime, with Milan leading 43-55 at the break.

It became the Italian show for ALBA once the third quarter got underway as Procida and Spagnolo combined to devastating effect to reduce the gap to five points, 52-57. Milan reestablished its double-digit advantage through Causeur, Dimitrijevic and LeDay, with the score swelling to 55-68, but there was a good response by ALBA. In particular, Mattisseck and Williams really stood up on the offensive end to make Milan uncomfortable once more, then Procida’s layup with the final play of the period reduced the gap to eight points, 69-77.

The fight that ALBA showed throughout showed no signs of slowing down, even if the hosts were missing several key players, and it was Mattisseck and Rapieque who helped get the German side within touching distance of Milan, 80-83. Williams kept thriving inside and Spagnolo was getting more involved, with his jumper making it 84-86. Williams twice helped ALBA get within two points of the visitors, 86-88 and 88-90, but it was Spagnolo’s layup and then Tim Schneider’s 2 made free throws that saw Coach Gonzalez’s men finally level it up at 92-92 and send the game to overtime.

In what seemed like a good omen, Mirotic fouled Williams on the tip, giving ALBA a 94-92 advantage and its first lead since it was 13-11 in the first quarter. Mirotic didn’t take long to tie the game once more, but Procida’s three-point play and Schneider’s wing three had visiting coach Ettore Messina sweating on the sideline, 100-94. Tonut reduced the deficit with a perfect trip to the line, 100-96, but Mattisseck caused the roof to come off Mercedes-Benz Arena with his fifth triple on the night, 103-96. Even when Nico Mannion hit a three-pointer with 23 seconds left to make it 103-101, Procida kept his cool from the line with 6 seconds remaining as ALBA came away with a memorable 105-101 triumph.

The home team's fans will not forget this game any time soon

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens returned to winning ways with a hard-fought home win over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, 93-87, having trailed for the lion’s share of the contest before hitting top gear in the last 4 minutes in Round 9 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. 

Panathinaikos finds another gear to subdue Maccabi, 93-87 

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens returned to winning ways with a hard-fought home win over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, 93-87, having trailed for the lion’s share of the contest before hitting top gear in the last 4 minutes in Round 9 of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.

Kendrick Nunn paced Panathinaikos with 21 points and 4 assists, while Mathias Lessort racked up 18 points and 6 boards. Cedi Osman and Juancho Hernangomez chipped in with 12 points each while Jerian Grant added 11 for the home team, which improved to 6-3 as it bounced back from last week’s Greek derby defeat at the hands of eternal rival Olympiacos Piraeus.

At the other end, Roman Sorkin led Maccabi with 21 points and 7 boards. Jaylen Hoard amassed 14 points and 5 rebounds and Rokas Jokubaitis netted 13 points for the visitors, who dropped to 3-6 after suffering their fifth defeat in the last six games.

Maccabi made a tremendous start and caused the Greens all sorts of problems inside, with Hoard doing the damage early on as the home team’s incensed head coach Ergin Ataman called a timeout inside the first minute of the game. Maccabi led 21-25 at the end of the first quarter as it sank 10 of 13 shots from two-point range while Panathinaikos committed 5 turnovers in the opening 10 minutes.

The hosts closed the gap to 27-29 early in the second but Maccabi held firm and engineered its biggest lead of the night, 33-45, late in the first half before Panathinaikos managed to trim its deficit to 37-47 at halftime. The misfiring hosts shot 2 of 10 from deep in the opening 20 minutes, having also committed 10 turnovers while losing the battle of the boards 11-15.

Panathinaikos came up with an 8-0 run early in the third to close in on the visiting team, 49-51, but stubborn Maccabi refused to relinquish its lead and headed into the final 10 minutes 60-63 ahead, although Lessort made some big plays in the pain to keep his team’s challenge alive.

Maccabi looked the more likely winner when a 0-8 run at the start of the fourth gave the visitors a 60-71 lead, but Panathinaikos once again dug deep into its vast resources to flip the script and come out on top. With Nunn and Lessort carrying the effort, Hernangomez and Osman joined the party with clutch shots from downtown as Panathinaikos nosed ahead for the first time, 79-76, with 4 minutes left on the clock.

Maccabi was still in it before a Lessort blitz basically sealed the contest, as the big man did it all in less than 60 seconds several plays later. He sank a pair of free throws to make it 86-82, then smothered a defensive rebound and finally dished out a pass to Hernangomez to nail a triple that effectively forced Maccabi into submission. The visitors battled hard to force a final twist but it never came as ice-cool free throw shooting in the final minute saw Panathinaikos grab a precious win in its bid to stay in the playoff picture.   

The reigning champs trailed for 36 minutes and then turned the tide behind Mathias Lessort and Kendrick Nunn

Olympiacos Piraeus-LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne | RS Round 9 Highlights | 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague

Anadolu Efes Istanbul earned a crucial victory in the early fight for the play-in spots as it knocked off Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 84-89 on the road to hand the Spanish side its first home defeat. 

Efes gets crucial road win, hands Baskonia first home loss

Anadolu Efes Istanbul earned a crucial victory in the early fight for the play-in spots as it knocked off Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 84-89 on the road to hand the Spanish side its first home defeat. Efes entered the game in 10th place and wasted a 15-point lead, but improved to 5-4 including a 4-1 road record.

Elijah Bryant scored 20 points to go with 8 rebounds and 6 assists for the winners, who also saw Darius Thompson pour in 18 points and Rodrigue Beaubois drain 5 three-pointers for 16 points.

Baskonia, which was 11th coming into the contest, fell to 4-5 including 4-1 at Buesa Arena. Chima Moneke paced the hosts with 22 points and Khalifa Diop had 13 points and 9 rebounds. Markus Howard missed all four of his three-point attempts in going scoreless - just the second time in 80 games that he failed to score a point after Round 26 in 2022-23 against Valencia in just 7:26 minutes. 

Beaubois started the game hot with a three-pointer for a 0-5 lead. Ousmane Ndiaye knocked down 2 triples at the other end and Trent Forrest had 4 points as Baskonia led 16-12. Beaubois drained his third and fourth three-pointers of the quarter in a 0-10 Efes run to pull ahead 16-22. Baskonia finished the quarter strong and was down 21-24.

Baskonia was still close at 24-29 when Efes’s defense held tough and Bryant and Stanley Johnson knocked down triples in a 5-15 run for a 29-44 cushion. Baskonia went into the locker room on a high note with a 10-2 close of the first half thanks to 5 points from Nikos Rogkavopoulos to trail 39-46.

Baskonia retained the momentum from the end of the first half and held Efes scoreless for more than 5 minutes. Moneke converted a three-point play and Kamar Baldwin drained a triple in a 12-0 start to the third quarter for a 51-46 lead. Efes countered with three and-ones of its own and Thompson knocked down back-to-back threes as the visitors went up 61-63. The score was 63-65 after 30 minutes.

Efes drained 3 three-pointers and was ahead 70-74 in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. The visitors went cold again and Baskonia answered with the next 7 points to lead 77-74. Efes punched back with 4 straight points to move back ahead and start a string of five lead changes with Thompson hitting a triple with 80 seconds left to make it 82-83. Bryant followed with a layup off the glass and Efes went up 82-85 with 28 seconds remaining. After Moneke and Bryant swapped free throws, Moneke was called for an offensive foul with 8 seconds left to give Efes the win.

Elijah Bryant came up big for the visitors 

Valencia remains perfect, blows out Cedevita 109-80

Valencia Basket used a strong second half to run past Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 109-80 on Tuesday night in the team's first home game since the horrific floods that hit the area two weeks ago. Valencia improved to 7-0 record atop Group B, while Cedevita lost its third straight, dropping to 4-4 on the season.

The key in the victory was the third quarter in which Valencia outscored Cedevita 31-10. Valencia had seven scorers in double figures, with Josep Puerto leading the way with 15. Xabi Lopez-Arostegui scored 14 points, Mathew Costello collected 13 points and 7 rebounds, Semi Ojeleye had 13 points plus 6 rebounds, and Nate Reuvers 12 points and 7 rebounds. Brancou Baio and Jean Montero each scored 11 in the victory. Devin Robinson netted 16 points for the visitors, Devante Jones 14, Aleksej Nikolic had 13 and Rok Radovic 11 points in defeat.

Reuvers had a pair of baskets early, but a three-pointer from Jaka Blazic and a three-point play from Nikolic put the visitors in front 9-10. More baskets from Nikolic and Blazic opened an 11-16 lead, but Chis Jones had 5 points in his first action this season and a triple from Jaime Pradilla made it 21-18 after 10 minutes.

Cedevita scored the first 7 points on the second quarter with a three-point play from Robinson making it 21-25. But Montero and Ojeleye each nailed a triple and Ojeleye went coast-to-coast to restore a Valencia lead, 29-27. Robinson had another three-point play for the visitors, but Costello and Sergio De Larrea each made a triple before downtown shots from Puerto and Montero gave the hosts their first double-digit lead, 51-41. Robinson threw down a highlight-reel dunk and Nikolic another triple, helping Cedevita cut into the deficit and make it 57-50 at halftime.

Valencia stormed out of the gate in the second half with a 7-0 run in just 63 seconds, with Badio hitting a jumper and a triple and Costello adding a fastbreak dunk. Nikolic completed a three-pointer for the visitors, but it was all Valencia after that with Costello sinking another three before another 7-0 run sparked by Reuvers and capped by Puerto's three-pointer made it 74-55. After a timeout, Reuvers had another basket and a blocked shot, while back-to-back triples from Puerto and Lopez-Arostegui fueled an 8-0 run and helped extend it to 88-60 after 30 minutes.

Things slowed down in the fourth for Valencia, but the margin remained. Davante Jones had a three-pointer that cut it to 92-68, but the hosts replied with a 10-0 run, which featured three-pointers from Costello and Montero. The margin was as big as 107-72 in the final minutes as Valencia celebrated a big win.

The hosts set a club record for scoring in the win

Valencia remains perfect with blowout of Cedevita, 109-80

Olympiacos Piraeus extended its winning streak to four games by edging LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 94-92 on Tuesday at the Peace and Friendship Stadium. 

Olympiacos outlasts ASVEL, 94-92

Olympiacos Piraeus extended its winning streak to four games by edging LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 94-92 on Tuesday at the Peace and Friendship Stadium. The hosts were trailing for most of the game, but managed to mow down ASVEL in the last 3 minutes of the game. With the win, Olympiacos improved its record to 6-3. Despite its huge effort in Piraeus, ASVEL fell to 2-7.

Sasha Vezenkov paced Olympiacos with 21 points and Evan Fournier netted 20. Nikola Milutinov chipped in with 13 points and 7 rebounds for a team-high PIR of 26.

An extraordinary Theo Maledon led all scorers with a career-high 31 points, with Joffrey Lauvergne and Shaquille Harrison netting 16 and 15 points, respectively. Mbaye Ndiaye recorded 11 points and David Lighty added 10 in a losing effort.

Fournier and Vezenkov netted from inside, but Lighty scored ASVEL’s first 5 points of the game and Maledon nailed two straight triples for a 6-11 lead. Fournier’s triple was followed by Maledon’s layup. Kostas Papanikolaou drilled a corner three to bring Olympiacos within 12-13. Baskets from Lauvergne sandwiched a Milutinov bucket, as ASVEL extended its lead to 14-19. The visitors fired on all cylinders, with Maledon and Ndiaye drilling back-to-back triples for a 16-25 cushion. Then, Harrison and Tarik Black netted in the paint to open an 18-29 margin.  Moses Wright and Thomas Walkup made 3 free throws each, cutting the difference to 24-29 after 10 minutes.

Alec Peters opened the second quarter with a triple, but Maledon responded with a layup to make it 27-31. Harrison and Peters traded baskets before Charles Kahudi nailed a high-flying layup to maintain a 29-35 lead. Lauvergne completed a three-point play and then nailed a triple, with an Ndiaye slam giving ASVEL a 31-43 cushion. Yet, Olympiacos reacted, as 4 points from Milutinov and 2 triples from Luca Vildoza brought the hosts within 41-43. Yet, a Harrison dunk off a steal was followed by a triple from Ndiaye for a 42-50 lead at the break.

Moustapha Fall netted Olympiacos’s first 7 points of the third quarter to bring the hosts within 49-54. ASVEL responded with Lighty scoring 5 points and Harrison nailing a layup that extended the visitors’ lead to 49-61. Vezenkov took over with a triple and two buckets from inside to bring Olympiacos within 58-63. Maledon and Fournier exchanged triples before Vezenkov completed a three-point play to trim the deficit to 65-67. Then, Harrison and Kahudi netted inside, but a deep triple from Fournier cut the difference to 71-73 heading into the closing quarter.

Fournier and Kahudi exchanged buckets before Milutinov made 2 from the line to bring Olympiacos within 75-76. But Maledon was cooking, as he netted a triple before completing a three-point play for a 77-82 lead. Fournier and Lauvergne then traded baskets from inside before a corner triple from Walkup and a Vezenkov bucket tied it at 84-84. Lauvergne dunked off a pick-and-roll play, but Walkup netted a big three and Fournier scored a long two-pointer to give Olympiacos an 89-86 cushion with 1:40 left on the clock. After Nigel Williams-Goss nailed 2 free throws, a triple from Ndiaye made it 92-89 with 0:47 remaining. Fournier made a couple of free throws before Maledon went 3-for-3 from the line, but it wasn’t enough for ASVEL to stun Olympiacos.

Sasha Vezenkov led the Reds with 21 points  

Veolia Towers Hamburg-Aris Midea Thessaloniki | Round 8 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

Trefl Sopot v Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv (2024-11-12T18:00:00.000Z)

A delightful move from Blatt and Sorkin as the latter converts the alley-oop with a mighty slam!

Great dunk on the alley-oop by Sorkin! Motorola Magic Moment

 A delightful move from Blatt and Sorkin as the latter converts the alley-oop with a mighty slam!

Hamburg runs past Aris, 93-69

Veolia Hamburg Towers led from start to finish en route to registering their second win of the season, downing the depleted Aris Midea Thessaloniki 93-69 on Tuesday night. Both teams now hold 2-6 records in Group B. Hamburg had a 10-point lead already in the first quarter and extended it to 47-26 in the second. Aris never got closer than 12 points the rest of the way. 

Brae Ivey paced Hamburg with 15 points, Keondre Kennedy netted 14, while Zsombor Maronka and Kenneth Ogbe scored 12 apiece. Kur Kuath had 6 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks in the winning effort. Vassilis Toliopoulos netted 31 points on 6-for-18 three-point shooting and D'Moi Hodge bagged 15 in a losing effort.

Hamburg got it going right out of the gates with big dunks from Kuath and Jordan Barnett, the latter also adding a three-point play to make it 9-2. Ivey followed with 5 points, including a triple that opened a 14-4 lead. Joshua Roberts scored in traffic for the visitors and Toliopoulos scored 6 points before the end of the quarter, but not before baskets from Maronka and Osaro Rich secured Hamburg's 24-14 lead after 10 minutes.

Hodge had a fastbreak layup and the visitors' first three-pointer to keep the margin at 31-21, but Patrick Heckmann's steal and layup sparked a 7-0 run, capped by Jaizec Lottie, making it 38-21. Vasillis Kazamias and Kennedy traded triples, and Maronka's basket broke the 20-point margin, 47-26. Toliopoulos had a triple and a three-point play to cut to 51-33, and after Kennedy nailed another three for the hosts, a thee from Hodge made it 54-38 at halftime.

Baskets were few and far between to start the second half, with a triple from Ivey and a tip-in from Aris's James Banks the only field goals in the first 3 minutes. Hodge and Maronka traded three-pointers and Aris was not going away as Emmanouil Chatzidakis had a three-point play and Toliopoulos a triple that cut it to 64-49, but Maronka and Kennedy nailed back-to-back triples to open a 70-49 margin. Hodge had another three-pointer, his fourth, and Toliopoulos knocked down his third and fourth, cutting it to 72-59 after 30 minutes.

Hamburg had a strong start to the fourth quarter. A runner from Osaro Rich, a triple from Ivey, and Kuath's fifth blocked shot all fueled a 7-0 run, capped by a driving layup from Ogbe, for a 79-59 margin. But Toliopoulos scored the next 8 points - a pair of triples with a floater in between - that got Aris within 81-69. However, Aris did not score the rest of the way, the final 5:57 of the contest, as Hamburg finished the game on an 11-0 run.

The German side thoroughly impressed on its home floor

Lessort rocks the rim after a sublime pass by Hernangomez!

Big two-handed dunk by Lessort! Motorola Magic Moment

 Lessort rocks the rim after a sublime pass by Hernangomez!